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Components of a Book

This year, the snubnose and her classmates have started doing projects: in-depth investigations into a single topic and then having to write about it. Most of these in-depth investigations and write ups are a lot of hooey, but there was one project that was super-impressive. This was a project on materials – all types of…

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

This is the story of Sister Alice Bhatti a junior nurse and ex-convict who works in Sacred Heart Hospital in Karachi. Alice Bhatti is a bit of a badass and is incredibly well-written. She refuses to submit to the advances of perverse wealthy men, dishes out her own form of revenge or justice against men…

Dear Life by Alice Munro

Dear Life

I had heard a lot of praise about Alice Munro in many book blogs, and I had always penned her somewhere in the back of my mind as an author whose books I want to read. Last week, I finally read a compilation of her short stories – Dear Life and I love her writing…

Snubnose Experiences her First Sleepover

Tonight, snubnose gets to experience her very first sleepover. Her school is having an astronomy session – a night under the stars bundled in a sleeping bag and armed with a telescope. There will be a stargazing session and some discussions on the moon’s waxing and waning. Adding in story time and snacks, I just…

The Other Side of the Table

This is a short epistolary novel written in a series of letters between two friends – Uma and Abhi. Uma is in Calcutta studying to be a doctor and Abhi is a neurosurgeon in training in London. This book spans a several years in their lives as they grow into their different lives and use…

The Beautiful and Damned

This is the story of a young couple Anthony and Gloria Patch, living out their days to the hilt in Jazz-era New York as they await the death of Anthony’s grandfather, Adam Patch, from whom they expect to inherit his massive fortune. Gloria is a gorgeous girl who is spoiled and willful, unwilling to settle…